The American Legion Weekly [Volume 4, No27 (July 7, 1922)] . Members of Hollywood (California) Post turned movie actors (which alot of them are anyway) to make the Christie comedy, O Promise Me,a success. This French buvette scene shows them lending the screen alittle accurate local color. At left, National Commander MacNider,Marshal Foch and Governor McCray of Indiana, at Indianapolis. Atright, members of the Auxiliary Executive Committee viewing the paintingAmerica, the gift of the French Ministry of War to the two films are now included in American Legion Film Service releases
The American Legion Weekly [Volume 4, No27 (July 7, 1922)] . Members of Hollywood (California) Post turned movie actors (which alot of them are anyway) to make the Christie comedy, O Promise Me,a success. This French buvette scene shows them lending the screen alittle accurate local color. At left, National Commander MacNider,Marshal Foch and Governor McCray of Indiana, at Indianapolis. Atright, members of the Auxiliary Executive Committee viewing the paintingAmerica, the gift of the French Ministry of War to the two films are now included in American Legion Film Service releases Crank, Crank, Crank,the Reels A-Winding The Legion Adds Several Miles of Celluloid Strip to Its Machin-ery for Broadcasting the Message of the Veteran. OUR hero strode up the duck-boards, his teeth gritted to-gether in determination. Theywere nice new duckboards, andthe trench itself was all that a soldieror the most comfort-loving travellingsalesman could ask. It was care-fully banked with sandbags—hundredsof them, in beautifully arranged piles,and was so conveniently deep that noteven a normal giraffe walking posttherein would have furnished a targetfor a sniper. There was no mud in the that was why our hero worebright and shining russets instead ofthe conventional hobnails. Moreover,his shirt was unbuttoned with the col-lar turned back, producing a charmingdecollete effect, and he carried his gasmask with the flap out, apparently sothat it would not scratch his nakedchest. Nice, Lavender Bursts Two shells burst over the trench ina spurt of lavender and cerise sooner had their fragments settledthan our hero vaulted the parapet anddropped into a shell-hole convenientlyequipped with a telephone and, pre-suma
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